(08-30-2015, 04:38 AM)Ashe Wrote: She has a backstory and everything. Like...I am pretty good with lore. I've interpreted things with the lore given that ended up being affirmed in Heavensward (which made me really happy with Ashe 'cause it's legitimized a lot of what I was rping on him). Anyways, I don't understand the foreign accent thing with the domans and othard people at all. In the Japanese version of the game, they just speak a more archaic yet understandable version of the language...I never once thought about the language as a part of their characters.
I have a backstory on her. I've rpd with her multiple times but there is this wall with the limited amount of lore that can't be interpreted. I see people RPing their Xaela as like...regular Eorzeans who are all about that city life and it's like...that isn't really possible because they aren't about living in cities or really liking anyone outside of their own tribes (which is what I've interpreted). To get my character out of her tribe, I had her kicked out...
Also, lining up stuff with other Au Ra players sounds easy but with Xaela they are warring tribes. Does that, lore wise, even make sense? Some of the tribes were especially violent--Jhungid is a tribe that held an annual battle against the Kharlu and while they weren't doing that they were enslaving other tribes. That doesn't seem all too friendly to me...
I am surprised no one here has hit that wall with the lore...that or people are ignoring the lore completely >>
There is actually a TON of lore available to those who are Raen from Doma available in the game. RPing a Raen actually seems easy...
But Xaela....I guess it's easy if you ignore the lore >>
Actually, most of those things have cropped up pretty regularly for the Au Ra RP I'm involved in. There's underlying inter-tribal conflicts and suspicions going on, bloody brawls with agitators, squabbling and chest-puffing over whether Raens or Xaela are better.Â
Not all the Xaela tribes are warring. Of the list we have, only maybe a fifth or fewer of them are noted for violence. That aside, they're not in Othard anymore. Most of them aren't with their tribes anymore. Old habits may die hard, but they are in a totally different environment, and some adaption is going to need to happen. It's not as if the local authorities would just shrug their shoulders at a Dotharl attacking everyone they come across, so it stands to reason that a Dotharl player has cause to curb their violence at least a bit.
Keep in mind that what we know about the Xaela tribes insofar as the little blurbs SE gave us are talking about those tribes in the context of their normal lives in Othard. Xaela refugees in Eorzea are living anything but ordinary lives right now, which means that there's a lot of room for players to come up with their own stuff.